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Stiff penalties for not vaccinating, and a local and state government less corrupt that is able to provide enforcement and better assistance.

I don’t get the education angle here, the anti vaccination parents can’t be fixed like that, and many of them were not educated in the state ; but they can be made to follow health codes.

That said, Texas needs better education system. But this another issue entirely

Education can’t fix it (lead horse to water ..)

If it’s not home, then who would steal it?

Not that poster, but it’s really easy to be an ass in these discussions because it’s normally filled with liberal middle class Americans who have a unique set of blinders and hopes that can get frustrating .

And I say this as a middle class American more deluded than most

That is a great story that inspires hope!

One of my friends had his dad killed at a rally decades ago, for protesting against them. So I am grateful they are much weaker now, almost a Boy Scout troop, far from the fear and mayhem they caused earlier.

Fortunately their replacements are as hampered by the changes in the times as anyone else

Protests.

It’s my opinion anyway. I’ve seen the real world communities be less the past two generations. I know in my youth that’s how things were done to get the crowds out, and believe there is a missing mechanism in grassroots today in the USA

• Thinks it’s foolish to live near volcano.
• Looks at maps of previous eruptions last few thousand years
• Cries

This picture might as well have been in any one of the larger towns or any city.

Now days, in the USA, it could only happen in the larger cities, regardless of what the issues were about.

Bottom line is the internet online groups are no substitute for meetings at the Methodist church down the street, Willie’s pool hall, Sam’s grill, or the Pool club by 5th

Looks at current chip embargoes

My current business needs are worldwide; I need free access for all.

As I get more experience I find blocks in trade and nationalism, in any county, to get in the way of both software development ( my main concern) and hardware ( what my software runs on).

I need people in the Sahel, China, South American countries, EU, USA , other countries ( you get the picture) to have equal access, no matter what their stupid political establishments, filled with dumb fucks, are doing or who they are currently in bed with this month or year or decade. I’m not really trying to play favorites

All I’m saying is better for most people if chip production was distributed across many countries and not the plaything, soft power, or negotiation chip ( pun intended) of any specific nationality or political grouping.

I know that probably is not possible but I can dream, and one country trying to get a monopoly gets in the way.

And historic trade practices is so yesterday

But if all that growth happened it’s still concentrated in one, politically unstable, country which has authoritarian approaches to trade. It does not improve the situation

They are trying to be old Reddit? I don’t think there is the demand.

Too many competing services, they don’t have anything that distinguishes themselves, and also took a reputation hit. And many super users there left over mismanagement.

Too many hurdles if good management, and their management sucks

Edit: the only thing that gives them value is their old pages; a makeover would at minimum, hamper that I think

I know many Americans want to have more chip building, but world trade would be better off if that were distributed

I don’t know much about this. But I do remember a time the GOP did not criticize Trump before the threats started.

What changed? In my personal view nothing. Either the fear is overstated or used as a crutch for advancement in the gop. Maybe I’m wrong?

Show my work ? You know it’s been done many times already? My point was, that anyone can verify it.

Anyway, there are so many issues, untruths, misunderstandings and downright denial here there is nothing to really reply about. I’m not saying you are deliberately acting in bad faith, but shows how much bs is circulating around and how invested people are to not follow common sense. Or understand some basic truths, just science, math and tech truths.

When the exit polls are off, 300 years of exit polls suggest the ballots are off. When many states flunk basic stats when doing tests with precinct size and candidate ratios, generations of using these suggest the ballot counts are off.

So what is happening here is that somehow the ballot counts are off for several important states. And most USA politically active people look at this, what I said, and think I just spoke Greek.

There has long been a disconnect between the politically chattering social classes and the nerds who have been saying the tech here is too easily manipulated. I have yet, in the last decade, to see a political commentator who knows what they are talking about when discussing this. People like me have been frozen out of the discussion in both major parties since before 2016. It’s why I stopped being active in the Texas Democratic Party when I could not influence them a few years ago.

I’m not wrong in any of my points; and it sounds like you are generalizing a very complex picture and throwing out a few terms for emphasis.

There is much much more to all that, I promise you. If you or the reader is curious to learn more, but don’t need a tech heavy approach. Learn more about the history of exit polling or learn how the United Nations tests for ballot stuffing. Then apply it to a selection of states of your choice. You will find about a 2:3 ratio of questionable results.

Then learn how other democracies count their ballots and check out the sane tests performed there. The uk has an easy to understand system if need to compare.

Ballot stuffing is nothing new in USA politics; all political parties have indulged in it since the founding of this county, many people usually turn a blind eye. But sometimes more criticism did occur. What is different now in the last few decades is how it’s done, and how it’s dismissed and overlooked .

This discussion is happening because USA politics is weird. I’m totally freaked out I still, after many years, have to take a kindergarten explanation to many, not just here.

Look, bottom line is if you have to trust the vote counters then there is cheating. Period

I study history a lot, also I’m older so I have the perspective of two or three generations now.

Things have normally been not the idealized concept of Disney princess goodness in government. Evil shits normally have been doing stuff for as long as civilization has existed. So all this is not new.

What is new, and makes this newsworthy, is the masks have fallen off. Those masks and idealized fantasy much of the population indulges in took decades, generations to build up. In many ways this is a very rude culture shock.

The other reason this is important now is the climate is rapidly collapsing while the trade systems have reached unprecedented complexity. So a group of particularly thuggish people rising to power in several nations at once, as they tend to do with regularity. May have epic and disastrous consequences! It’s a really bad time for this to happen

It’s a very large country dominated by few sources of news that at best, will give an idea about what some of the population is feeling.

Social media is not much better an indicator. Usually with a very small percentage of people participating who probably don’t fit the demographic of any large group of people.

More so, opinion polls can be inaccurate at this time because most people don’t reply to spam calls, text or mail.

In my area most people are not political at all, the people I know who identify as conservative either don’t care, know or support what is happening. Most people I know who identify as not conservative are out of the loop or cynical.

Regardless, most of either persuasion would regard my comments and this thread as odd. Meanwhile I am sure I can tune into, and read about, how evil liberals or conservatives can be.

Neither label applies to most. When I grew up, many years ago, conservative to me meant going to church once a week and not robbing banks, and liberals were seen as promoting reading and planting trees.

People really have not changed that much, but those words certainly did. I miss the old definitions, and am not making any sort of political comment here

It means many things to different people, its an overused word. Now, its a bad word